Unique Identifier

[Callum Lerwick]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 13:04 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:57 -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:20 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > Whats the most accepted way to create a unique identifier (key) for a
> > > host?  Collisions are fine if they are rare.
> > 
> > What about the uuid package in extras?
> > 
> > $ uuid
> > 7c098fe8-9053-11db-a2c8-001560c53ca8
> 
> Why not /usr/bin/uuidgen from e2fsprogs? :-)

$ head -c 33 /dev/random |base64
lOmmWgyYE+EBZpsxP+Ayxt/JLL2JgdghfOiTWUEVBaDK

264 bits of random.
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